Horse-collar pad



(No Model.)

J. G. EGBERTSON.

HORSE COLLAR PAD.

110,358,851. Patented Mar. 8,1887.

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JAMES G. EGBERTSON, OF SUN PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN.

HORSE-COLLAR PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,851. dated March 8, 1.887.

- Application filed October 9, 1886. Serial No. 215,810. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES G. EGBERTSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sun Prairie, in the county of Dane and State of Wisconsin, have invented certai 11 new and useful Improvements in Collar-Pads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention consists in a collar-pad back which combines facilities for readily and cheaply securing the flaps of said pad, and for ventilating and cooling that part of the animals neck covered by said pad where it supports the collar, as will be more particularly set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved collar-pad. Fig. 2 is a section through the line y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section through the line 00 w of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a cross-section through the central supporting rib or back.

In the drawings similar letters denote like parts throughout the several views.

The central longitudinal back or rib, 'A, is made sufficiently concave to allow the collar to fit snugly and securely to it. The sides of the rib A are perforated at suitable intervals to admit rivets or other suitable fastenings for the fiapsB B. Between the inner faces of the flaps B B, I insert at intervals strips d, preferably leather, of any desired thickness. (See Fig. 3.) I then pass rivets through the two sides of the r.b A, the two flaps, B B, and the central strips, (1, (see Fig. 2,) and the whole series is then firmly riveted together. The tubular central longitudinal rib, A, may be made of leather; but I prefer a flexible metal, such as malleable iron.

The sides of the malleableiron rib A are intended to be hammered down on the leather flaps at the same time that all the parts are riveted together, as described. It is'obvious that by this means I hold the intermediate thicknesses of leather with greatly-increased firmness and security as compared with any process of riveting the same between rigid metallic faces.

The air circulates freely through the upper part of the rib A, and through the spaces between the strips d, thereby cooling and ventilating the neck of the draft-animal and preventing it from scalding The angle formed by the flaps B B, fastened in the tubular rib A, as described, is sufficiently acute so that the neck of the animalwill not entirely occupy the acute angle so formed; but sufficient space will be left between the sides of the flaps and the bottom of the strips d for ventilation. In this manner I secure two ventilating air-passages with communicating ducts between the strips d, as hereinbefore described. The pad is fastened to the collar by means of the straps e e, one on each flap.

I am aware that a collar-pad has been made with flexible flaps converging at an acute angle and fastened to a solid rigid concave central metallic back, whereby air is admitted to the neck through the single passage between the apeX of the angle and the sides of the flaps, as in the patent to Andrew Foley, No. 190,428, issued May 8, 187 7 but my pad, while capable of simpler, cheaper, and firmer construction, provides better facilities for ventilation, in that it has two ventilating-passages-one above and the other below the juncture of the fiapstheir effectiveness be ing still further increased by communicating ducts at suitable intervals between said passages. I am also aware of patents to Peter H. Beaver, No. 137,049, issued March 25, 1873, and to F. F. Kannes, No. 251,600, issued December 27, 1881, reissued June 24, 1884, N 0. 10,492, and it is not my intention to claim anything covered by these patents cited; but

XVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

As an improved article, the withinvdescribed collar-pad, consisting of the hollow metal back A, adapted to be bent out, so as to aid in holding the flaps B B rigidly in operative position, in combination with the flaps B B and the intermediate strips, d, separated by suitable intervals, all secured as described, whereby a double series of communicating air-passages is provided for the purpose of ventilation, all as set forth,and for the uses and purposes mentioned.

I11 testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES G. EGBEBTSON. 

